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, house is turning over -- about half of them are up for re-election and of course presidential election as well, and so it is very likely of course that this will be reintroduced after all of those changes take effect and hopefully we'll have garnered some support and move forward, so we'll keep sounding that drum beat but tlt be on pause until after january when the new add m*ins -- administrations get all in place, so the problem, this can be really overwhelming, especially if you have not spent a lot of time thinking about this, but i think one of the solutions is just to start with one thing at a time and pick something that resonates for you, whether it's your food or you have kids and you just want to focus on making sure that -- what they're using and taking in is safer, or if it's an area of your life with regard -- we'll talk about this somehow with the fire department or your fire stations or your fire houses or whatever, also reach out to the breast cancer funds, we love questions, we love working with people, we're here to be your resource so don't hesitate to get in touch w
, house is turning over -- about half of them are up for re-election and of course presidential election as well, and so it is very likely of course that this will be reintroduced after all of those changes take effect and hopefully we'll have garnered some support and move forward, so we'll keep sounding that drum beat but tlt be on pause until after january when the new add m*ins -- administrations get all in place, so the problem, this can be really overwhelming, especially if you have not...
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time of their re-election. these were woodrow wilson, harry truman and george w. bush. these presidents experienced troubled or failed second terms. history aside, one cannot discount the possibility that obama would win not based on statistics like this, but because the electorate judges him the best alternative of the two candidates. success in a second term for obama is another matter, however. thank you. [applause] we really would welcome questions. it would be an advantage to c-span to have question and answer period. maybe some of you will reply to the questions that come from the audience, and we'd like you to participate as fully as you can. you see there's a microphone overhead that they'd like to take questions. do any of you have any questions? yes. >> al, i thought that was a remarkably objective and even-handed treatment and very insightful. thank you so much. my question is given that the president's opponents in the congress have made no bones about their goal to make him a one-term president, ha
time of their re-election. these were woodrow wilson, harry truman and george w. bush. these presidents experienced troubled or failed second terms. history aside, one cannot discount the possibility that obama would win not based on statistics like this, but because the electorate judges him the best alternative of the two candidates. success in a second term for obama is another matter, however. thank you. [applause] we really would welcome questions. it would be an advantage to c-span to...
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power is obviously invested in the prime minister who is the leader of the party that wins in a general election. the queen has specific powers under the constitution to be consulted and to encourage and to warren, and she does that in all of her private audiences with the prime ministers and many other government officials, members of the clergy, members of the judiciary who come to her for complete confidential audiences which are extremely important for them. [inaudible] >> the most important political title like it is under our system? >> the british constitution is so different from ours. it is an accumulation of laws and traditions and common-law over the years. there are subsets of the queen, that is what the term is. i need to ask that we cease asking questions temporarily. please the crowd for more questions from the audience. c-span will be here shortly to continue. they will be taking questions from the history and biography pavilion and also from national callers. please stay with us. we would love to have you
power is obviously invested in the prime minister who is the leader of the party that wins in a general election. the queen has specific powers under the constitution to be consulted and to encourage and to warren, and she does that in all of her private audiences with the prime ministers and many other government officials, members of the clergy, members of the judiciary who come to her for complete confidential audiences which are extremely important for them. [inaudible] >> the most...
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in a general election. c-span: but he came to visit and you played a role. >> guest: he did, yes. it was an interesting scene. patrick buchanan and his wife shelly came to see president nixon early on, pretty early on in the campaign, for advice. and they entered the office, and nixon took them into the office, and they were in there for between 15 and 20 minutes. and i was sitting at my desk, and i heard nixon's voice come over the intercom on my desk, and he asked me to come in and meet the buchanans. and i thought it was going to be just a very perfunctory introduction and then i would leave the office, but i was wrong. nixon asked me to sit down and he turned to me, and he said, "monica, why don't you tell pat what you think he should do." and i thought to myself, "oh, my god. nixon is not doing this to me,' but he was doing it to me." so i told pat buchanan that i thought that i had respected him very much for his entry into the race and for the fact that he was unwilling to compromise on his principle
in a general election. c-span: but he came to visit and you played a role. >> guest: he did, yes. it was an interesting scene. patrick buchanan and his wife shelly came to see president nixon early on, pretty early on in the campaign, for advice. and they entered the office, and nixon took them into the office, and they were in there for between 15 and 20 minutes. and i was sitting at my desk, and i heard nixon's voice come over the intercom on my desk, and he asked me to come in and meet...
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. >> lou: joining us now is congressman louie gohmer, elected to a' term and vice chair of the committee on terrorism and homeland security and served as chief justice for the 12th court of appeals. let's start with the fiscal cliff. i want to go to your call for a special prosecutor. on benghazi, but, going to the fiscal cliff, the speaker making it very clear, that he's going to approach the negotiation of the white house, on the cliff, positively with some sense at least of accommodation, potential accommodation, if his terms are met. that is positive stuff, don't you think? >> well, it is positive. but, there's a lot of pressure, right now, and, of course, pressure is what you can use to take care bonn and make diamonds. this is the time to be bold. this is not the time to be defensive and i'm glad the speaker has come forward with a proposal but, the thing is, we ought to be taking the president's words and sticking them back with him. he wants everybody to pay their fair share. let's do it. let's have capital gains, 15%. let's have income tax, 15%, gift taxes, 15%, let's make sure
. >> lou: joining us now is congressman louie gohmer, elected to a' term and vice chair of the committee on terrorism and homeland security and served as chief justice for the 12th court of appeals. let's start with the fiscal cliff. i want to go to your call for a special prosecutor. on benghazi, but, going to the fiscal cliff, the speaker making it very clear, that he's going to approach the negotiation of the white house, on the cliff, positively with some sense at least of...
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some of the states chose direct election of the electors, some states chose the election of directors or selection of lectures by the legislature. this was truly left up to the states at that time. no, as time has gone by, obviously, and the country has grown, many of those reasons, even if they were practical and made sense in 1787 no longer exist. there is no reason that anybody in any part of this country can know who the candidates are. that is one reason. and specifically to the point that you made, the notion of one-man, one-vote, that never applied to presidential elections because the allocation of electors is based on congressional representation and not just on population. that is a crucial distinction to make. i personally think that the electoral college has outlived its usefulness, if it ever had a practical reason in the first place. many people also point to the idea that a few large states would overwhelm the smaller states. i think that because of technology and communications, that idea is largely archaic as well. on the other hand, i don't think we are going to get
some of the states chose direct election of the electors, some states chose the election of directors or selection of lectures by the legislature. this was truly left up to the states at that time. no, as time has gone by, obviously, and the country has grown, many of those reasons, even if they were practical and made sense in 1787 no longer exist. there is no reason that anybody in any part of this country can know who the candidates are. that is one reason. and specifically to the point that...
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and we saw the results in the 2012 election. this did not cause president obama the election, it probably helped him. he had a healthy margin of victory of the popular vote. his margin was larger than his larger -- that his margin of victory. there are lots of groups you could say it about, but is also true of lesbian and gay voters. the issue almost certainly helped president obama and did not hurt president obama. the lesson is not lost on the republican party. here are my concluding thoughts. it is a complicated history to were the long road of marriage equality, the beginning is a complicated answer about backlash and the popular analysis of what is going on politically. what i want to conclude with, this has been neglected by the backlash theorists, how the courts have advanced marriage equality. i think there have been three things about what the courts have done. from my point of view, the most important is a fantastically important setting for capabilities. the word marriage in our vocabulary only meant different sects.
and we saw the results in the 2012 election. this did not cause president obama the election, it probably helped him. he had a healthy margin of victory of the popular vote. his margin was larger than his larger -- that his margin of victory. there are lots of groups you could say it about, but is also true of lesbian and gay voters. the issue almost certainly helped president obama and did not hurt president obama. the lesson is not lost on the republican party. here are my concluding...